{"id":388342,"date":"2026-07-27T23:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T23:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/388342\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T23:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T23:30:17","slug":"javier-hernandez-to-sign-with-usl-championship-side-atletico-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/388342\/","title":{"rendered":"Javier Hern\u00e1ndez To Sign With USL Championship Side Atl\u00e9tico Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-273d04fe=\"\">Javier \u2018Chicharito\u2019 Hern\u00e1ndez has agreed to join Atl\u00e9tico Dallas, first reported by transfer insider Fabrizio Romano.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-273d04fe=\"\">The deal makes the 38-year-old striker the first player signed in the history of the new USL Championship franchise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-273d04fe=\"\">Earlier in February, the club announced that former LaLiga and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/league\/_\/name\/FRA.1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ligue 1<\/a> player Peter Luccin would serve as the team&#8217;s first-ever manager. Hern\u00e1ndez is set to begin playing in 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-273d04fe=\"\">This marks the next phase of Hern\u00e1ndez&#8217;s career, which began in 2006 playing for Chivas Guadalajara, before playing in Europe from 2010-2019, for Manchester United, Real Madrid, Bayer Leverkusen, West Ham United and Sevilla.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-273d04fe=\"\">After leaving Sevilla, Hern\u00e1ndez made his way stateside to join LA Galaxy in MLS from 2020-2023. He then joined his boyhood club Chivas from 2024-2025 before joining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/stories\/soccer\/mexico-chicharito-javier-hernandez-fox-sports-2026-fifa-world-cup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">FOX Sports&#8217; coverage of the 2026 World Cup.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-273d04fe=\"\">Hern\u00e1ndez is also Mexico&#8217;s all-time leading goalscorer with 52 goals and three World Cup appearances (2010, 2014, 2018), with his last cap with the national team coming in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Javier \u2018Chicharito\u2019 Hern\u00e1ndez has agreed to join Atl\u00e9tico Dallas, first reported by transfer insider Fabrizio Romano.\u00a0 The deal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,1468,12762],"class_list":["post-388342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-mexico","tag-usl-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}